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I have just found very comprehensive comparison of various BitTorrent clients at BitTorrent Client Shootout. Below is my summary plus my opinions.

1. BitTorrent Official Client
   1. Clean, clear, simple, and official one, DHT
   2. Open source
   3. Lack of features: download limitation, UPnP doesn’t work properly in some cases, intend to support only Windows
2. uTorrent 

Google has acquired . So what is Writely? Writely is a word processor running on your browser. It is AJAX-based application aka Web 2.0. The Writely team announced this news at both  and . Though, they said it is still in beta state. You could apply for notification when it is ready. As far as I know, there are so many AJAX word processor available since last year. Writely seems to be the best one chosen by Google as a part of them.

This week could be the Web Framework week here. I have just found a good statistics regarding web framework. The first one is about Python Web Framework comparing to others. Arggg. There are so many frameworks for Python. Zope is the most popular one. The second is Python Template Engine Statistics. Zope is the first one again. And the last one, Programming Language Statistics, Java is the first and Python is the 7th.

As you might know, Guido is spending 50% of his time on Python at Google in Silicon Valley. However, Python is not the main language there. Fortunately, it is the 3rd after C++ and Java. Not too bad. Well, his starter project at Google was to develop an web-based internal tools for Google developers. Google has a ton of reusable web server code for large scale servers, anyway, they are overkill in that project and it’s all C++. He was looking for a good web framework. Actually, he was looking for what it should be. During the research, he found and tried Django, Ruby on Rails, Quixote, Nevow, and more. He concluded as the word No XML.

Are you a Pythonian? Well, no matter what you are, you might be looking for a good issue tracker. It is one of the must-have component for community development. Now I have 2 solutions in my mind.

1. Trac
2. Roundup

Trac is very attractive and complete; however, it might be too much with wiki if you already have one. Roundup is another one I found yesterday. Guido recommended python.org to use Roundup someday, sooner or later. So, Roundup is very interesting by now.

! Yes, it’s here just for alpha testers. Thanks to Michael Amington @  and lew @ Blognone to point me to these impressive screenshots. As you might see in the first screenshot.